jactitation2 /ˌdʒaktɪˈteɪʃn 
/ ▸ noun archaic a bold or boastful assertion or declaration: contain your jactitations of shock and alarm!.
– PHRASES jactitation of marriage archaic
false declaration that one is married to a specified person: it took nine years for the court to finally issue a verdict in her case of jactitation of marriage.
– ORIGIN late 17th century: from medieval Latin jactitatio(n-) ‘false declaration’, from Latin jactitare ‘to boast’.
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